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M THE EDGE OF WAR.
: Causes of tho Unsettled State of
Affairs in tho South American
fiepuhlic of Bolivia.
PRESIDENT AKCE A MONEY-KIKG.
He UnWushinjilj Boucht Himself Into
Power and Maj Use His Private
Fortune to Preserve It.
gi. STORY OP AN ATTEMPT TO EILIi MM.
fcs Erin of the Qainlne Industry Thrcu;b. Competition In
India and Jan.
tCOKEEEPOXDEN-CE OP THE DISPATCH.!
La Paz, Bolivia, June 12. That the
rumors of war in this alleged Bepnblic,
which by this time must have reached the
United States, are not without foundation,
may be seen in the fact that all public
mention of the revolutionary movement by
Bolivian telegraph or newspaper has been
rigorously suppressed and that most of the,
available troops have been sent from La Paz
to various points of danger. It is extremely
difficult to get reliable information from
either side, since it is the President's policy
to preserve secrecy, and he has absolute
control of the press and the wires; and also
because the towns are long distances apart,
with comparatively uninhabited stretches
of deserts and mountains between.
It is authoritatively stated that a large
number of La Paz' most prominent citizens
have secretly left to join the revolutionary
forces, and that more than 2,000 volunteers
have already come over from Peru,
where President Arce is particularly un
popular, owing to bis actions during the
late war between Peru and Chili, at which
time he was Bolivia's Minister in the latter
country. It is asserted that Peruvians, not
the Government, but private parties, will
supply General Comacho, the revolutionary
leader, with funds and arms to carry on the
war, smuggling both over the border in re
aote and unguarded places.
CAUSES OF BISCOKTEST.
The Bolivians have several causes for
disaffection, the main one being that in
spite of all protests the President keeps in
bis Cabinet a most unpopular Jesuit, a
sanctimonious, but crafty person who is de
voted to his order, and therefore likely to
subserve the public interests to its good.
The country, too, leels very sore over the
loss of its small strip of sea-coast which
Chili now claims, "believing that Arce sold
it to that Government for value received.
Last week two unoffending Americans,
mining engineers named Thompson and
"Williams, were assassinated near the Boliv
ian border by a company of Peruvians on
their way to join the revolutionary army
simply because the Americans refused to
shout "Viva Comacho!" when commanded.
The other day a Bolivian hardware mer
chant ttas put into prison tor having sold a
lot ot rifles to uuknown parties, presumably
rebels. The schemes of the latter came to
naught in one instance, &a follows: The
Government has a lari;e amount of arms and
ammunition stored at Oruro, where a con
siderable garrison is maintained. Comacho
wanted these to carry on the war, and his
lriends bribed the commanding officers to
come over to their bide. Among the latter,
however, was a traitor of double dye who,
having accepted the bribe and promised
allegiance to the enemr and listened to all
their plans, went to the President and sold
his information lor more money, thereby
causing the arrest and probable execution
of his fellow officers, and rendering his own
life of little account in the present disturbed
state ot affairs.
MOXEY rOWTB IN POLITICS.
The President has one immense advantage
over General Comacho, for while the lat
ter is poor as a church mouse, depending for
funds upon friends nearly as poor as him
self, Arce possesses a very large fortune,
the monthly dividend from his mines alone
being sufficient to carry on the conflict to its
bitter end, should the public treasury fail
him. Comacho may be best described as a
worn-out politician, whose "day" was long
since supposed to be done in Bolivia; a
chronic revolutionist, who has given the
country more than one scare in time past
A lamiliar figure on the streets of La Pax
is President Arce a corpulent, dark-eyed,
middle-aged gentleman, in plain black suit
and tall t ilk hat, always attended bva bodv
guardof lour or five gold-bedizened sol
diers. He was not called to the executive
chairbyagratelul country in acknowledg
ment for services rendered in peace or war,
but he seems to take pride in tde fact that
he bnujrht his elevation by tne power of
wealth. In his electioneering speeches he
did cot hesitate to say: "This is a cam
paign of money, and lor money alone. He
Lo has the most money can pay most for
votes, and will be likely to do most lor the
people after his election." And he has
done a good deal in the way of expending
his private means for public works where
his own interests were also involved; as, for
example, the construction of roads in the
direction of his mines, and in other parts
of the country where he has property.
AN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.
Sot longago a young man belonging toone
of the leading families of the interior, was
sent to La Paz for the express purposafof
killing the President. Finding no other op
portunity for accomplishing his mission, he
obtained an invitation to a banquet that was
about to be given at the palace; but before
hand incautiously wrote to his backers de
tailing the plan, saying that he should shoot
the President in the course of the evening, '
and endeavor to escape in the confusion that
would ensue.
The letter was intercepted, as suspected
correspondence is certain to be in this coun
try, and fell into the hands of the intended
victim. Nothing was said about it, how
ever; the banquet came off according to
programme; the young man, pale but reso
lute, was there, revolver in pocket When
the guests were seated around the table,
waiting for the first course to appear, the
President courteously sent a silver salver to
the would-be murderer, on which lav his
own open letter. ".Now," said Arce "in a
cheerful voice, "is you opportunity to assas
sinate me. Why don't you begin?"
The yocng man, quite taken by surprise,
stammered some inaudible excuse. "Ah,
vou falter," said the President, in the same
light tone. '"This is no place for cowards.
Ton have two hours in which to leave the
country. It you are found at the end of
that time, or any time thereafter while I am
ct the head of affairs, you will be shot on
sight."
ETJIN OF THE CHINCONA TEADE.
The production of chincona bark, or
cascarilla, as it is here called, from which
the alkaloid quinine is extracted, was for
many years Bolivia's most important in
dustry in the agricultural linp? hut Hnrino-
the last four years it has proved unprofit-',
aoiu, umus iu competition in Java and the
British provinces in Southern Asia. That
class of individuals known at Borne as
"smart Alecks," are lound even in this out-of-the-way
corner of creation On f .
st8 ce,min Senor Bancroft, who was a
lfe$1Le5Ty Pante-' o cascarilla a few years ago.
w. nroinerous and presnmnW 1..1,.. -?
- unlucky day the idea struck him ol sending
a quantity of quina seed to his home Gov
ernment mat 01 .Holland thereby getting
himself into the papers and winning the
gratitude of posterity. In uncalled-for
generosity he sent a very large amount of
seed, with minute directions lor its treat
ment derived from his own experience, and
the suggestion that experiments be made in
Java.
',The remarkable success of chincona in
that island led the British Government to
.ea courage iu planting in India, and al- J
ready the business is ruined everwhere by
overproduction. Hr. Shucroft received a
little gold medal from the Dutch King in
acknowledgment of his enterprise; but at
the same time he lost all his fortune by hav
ing made valueless his own extensive cas
carilla plantations.
BOLIVIA AT A DISADVANTAGE.
Bolivia can never compete with those
countries that now take the lead in chincona
production, because of her immense disad
vantage in the matter of transportation. On
the other hand, the bark produced in India
and Java yields only two-thirds as much
sulphate of" quinine as that grown in this
part of the world. As an example of the
rapid depreciation in the price of bark may
be mentioned the Erickson plantation,
which was valued at a million and a halt
bolivianas five years ago, and is now
offered for sale at less than a quarter of
that amount, but cannot find a purchaser.
Chincona, at this distance from the equa
tor, will not grow at a greater elevation
than 5,000 feet, nor lower than 3,000. The
seeds, which are sown in beds, are so very
small, lighter than the lightest thistle-down,
that the least breeze wilj blow them away,
necessitatine great care in the handling.
When the plants are about one foot high
they arc transplanted, five or six feet apart,
to the sunny side of a mountain. It is as
serted that virgin soil is absolutely neces
sary, and that the addition of any vkind of
fertilizer would be ruinous. Twice every
year the earth between the tiees is slightly
disturbed by the primitive plows of the
country, and that is all the "'cultivation"
they require.
At the age of eight years the trees are
ready to strip; or, if the owner is hard up, as
is usually the case, a part of them may be
utilized sooner and young plants put in
their places. An 8-year-old tree yields
from 12 to 15 pounds of bark, which in the
present depressed state of trade is worth
only about 75 cents. The trunk of the tree,
after having been peeled, is entirely value
less, not even good for firewood in a country
where fuel is scarce. The cost of cutting,
drying and packing the bark is about SI 00
per hundred weight.
LICE THE GOLD BRICK FEATJD.
There are no fewer than 21 varieties of the
quina tree, some worthless, others ranging
in the amount of quinine contained in the
bark from one-half per cent to seven per
cent. The buyer must know his business,
for if not an exoert he is likely to be badly
sold. The "gold brick" swindle has not
been so often perpetrated in the United
States as that of selling for cascarilla the
worthless bark of some other tree. A well
known dealer of La Fez, who ought fo have
known what he was about. liter years ot ex
perience, recently lost S1C0.C00 at one fell
swoop on a shipload of bark supposed to be
cascarilla, but' which, when arrived at. the
English market, turned out to be a species
of oak, good for nothing at all. The only
way to test the bark is by tasting it That
which gies ont a bitter taste immediately
on being taken into the south will yield a
comparatively small atoiount of quinine,
while the best must he chewed before the
quinine taste is apparent.
Not an ounce of Bolivia's cascarilla ever
went to the United States; it is all sent to
Europe via the straits of Magellan. Not
withstanding the vast number of quina trees
in the country and the cheapness of the raw
material, there is no spot on earth where
quinine, as prepared in the form ot medicine
is so expensive. Though the people require
a great deal of it in cases of mountain fever,
lerciana etc., none is made in Bolivia.
When the bark that is grown here and ex
ported for next door to nothing-gets back in
the form of quinine, it becomes a "foreign
product," has exorbitant duties to pay and
sells accordingly. Whereas, in other lands
it yields the druggist a profit of about 80 per
cent, when retailed at a cent a grain, it sells
in La Paz at the rate of ten cents per grain.
If some enterprising Northerner would set
up an establishment in this country lor ex
tracting the alkaloid from the bark, his
fortune would soon be made.
Fannie B. Waed.
OIL IK INDIA.
Vast Deposit so Fare That It Can be Used
In Lamp Crnde.
Newcastle, Encland, chronicle.
A discovery likely to largely assist in the
development of the iron industry of India,
to which attention was recently directed in
this column, is that there are large deposits
of petroleum in various parts of the Indian
peninsula. In Upper Burmah, near Yen
angyoung, oil wells have been worked for
some time, and the product has become an
article of commerce in the district. The
existence of this deposit suggested the possi
bility of there being others in the country,
and a survey has disclosed the fact that such
is the case. ,
At a recent meeting of the Chemical So
ciety, Mr. Boverton Redwood explained
what had been done in the matter, and from
his statement it seems that productive de
posits have been lound in both Upper and
Lower Burmah including the Arakan
Islands in Assam, in the Panjab, and in
Beloochistan. In Arakan the most product
ive fields are those of Batnri and the East
ern Baranga Islands, in both 01 which local
ities petroleum of a very high quality .
in some cases sufficiently pure to be
capable of being burned in ordinary lamps
in its crude state has been obtained.
At Khatan, in Beloochistan, five wells
have been drilled, and each one is capable
of furnishing a supply of 50,000 barrels a
year. The Arakan oil is the best from the
point of view of the kerosene manufacturer;
but on the other hand the Tenangyoung oil
yields a larger percentage of paraffine. Al
ready arrangements have been entered into
with the Northwestern Railway for supply
ing petroleum to be used on the Sind-Pislim
section of that line as liquid fuel.
BEFOEMS OF MOBHONISM.
A Society at Salt Lake Ciiv to Di-conrngo
Polysnmy Tho Decline.
"The Mormon element in Salt Lake City
and vicinity." savs Pror. H. M. Mayo,
in the SL Louis Globe-Democrat, "is
now in the minority, and they no longer
have even a hand in the government of the
community in which they once ruled
supreme. The municipal government and
the control of the schools have passed into
the hands of the Gentiles, and the presence
and power of the Mormons are felt only to a
limited extent The churches still retain
much of their former grandeur, and their
mode of conducting religious exercises and
maintaining the churches unchanged, bnt
many of their former social customs are dis
appearing. "They no longer dare to live
openly in polygamy. The laws on this
point are well enforced. A wealthy and in
fluential Mormon leader has "ust served a
six months' term in the penitentiary for
polygamv. They are becoming more en
lightened, and even the Church is, to some
extent, discouraging polygamy. There is a
society of young Mormon ladies mantained
in the city in which a distintive feature is a
pledge not to marry a polygamist"
ESCAPING A MAD BOO. '
The Animal Incllnea to Straight lAaet, bnt
Will Follow ir One Flees.
"If people were only taught half so much
about the way to avoid mad dogs as they are
about sunstrote, said Officer Mulvihill the
other day, "we would not often hear of a
case of hydrophobia. A good thing to
know is that a mad dog never turns aside
from the course he is running to bite any
body. So if one is right in the path of a
rabid animal he can get out of all danger
bv jumping to one side and out of the path
ot the dog. Hut if it is absolutely impossi
ble to get out of the way, the man or woman
should stand perfectly still and face the
dcg. He will turn aside then himselfyhnd
run in a different direction, while il thper
son in front of him screams and runs Away,
as nine out often will do, the dog will over
take and bite the victim. Of course it re
quirts courage to stand still ana face a
raoi,a dog, terrible as mis animal always
loots, but the result snows mat tne real
danger lies in taking flignu
I U
ELI PERKINS' JOKES.
Deliberate Character of the English
Police Illustrated.
BEECHER AND BOB ISGEESOLL.
Stories Told by Eminent DIvine3 at the Ex
pense of Baptists. '
DK. TALHAGE'S PITTSBURG LECTDEE
rCOBBESPONDENCE OP TUB DISPATCH.
London, July IL John Bull does every
thing deliberately. He thinks before he
acts, while the 'Frenchman acts and then
thinks. This habit of slow deliberation
saves the police much trouble.
To illustrate the wisdom of deliberation
on the part of the English police: To-day a
large 200-ponnd Yankee sailor, loaded with
fiery Scotch whUky, got into a Piccadilly
stage and insisted on riding for nothing.
Expostulation did no good, so the coductor
called to a policeman to put him out
"So you won't pay your fare?" said 'the
policeman, looking at the belligerent Yan
kee from head to foot
"No, I'll die first. They should have
given me a transfer."
"But I am obliged to put you out if you
don't pay your fare," said the policeman,
rolling up his sleeves.
"You jes' try it," said the sailor, with
glaring eyes.
The policeman took another look at Jon
athan, thought a moment and then quietly
banded the conductor 5 cents.
"I guess that Is the easiest way to adjust
this case," he said, as he went whistling
along his way.
The unilorm of the London police is very
A Pair of London's Final.
formidable. It is the uniform of a New
York hose company and a Prussian sol
dier. MAJOR FOND ON BEECHEE.
Major Pond, when over here securing
Stinley and Dr. McEenzie for lecture tours
in America, told us some good stories about'
Beecher
"One day," said the Major, "we were
talking about Ingersoll, when Beecher re
marked, solemnly: "Yes, Pond, Bobert In
gersoll is eloquent very eloquent"
"Do you think his works and saying will
live?" lasted.
"Yes, he will go lowt with Voltaire and
Thomas Paine, and 1 should like to write
his epitaph it the great agnostic would for
give me for it"
"What would you write?"
"Simply this line," said Beecher, smil
ing: ROBERT BURKS.
Beecher's parable of the Baptist, con
tinned the Major, was as follows: "One
night," said Beecher, "I had a sweet dream
and floated away to heaven. Heaven was
very beautiful with angels and pearly gates
and crowds of happy Christians. There
were Presbyterians and Methodists in happy
communion, and Episcopalians singing
hymns with Campbellites all so happy, but
I could not see a Baptist I looked all
around, but not one in sight. Finally I saw
St Pete'r floating along on a cherubim, and
asked him about onr misssng brethren."
"It makes me sad," I said, "to see no
Baptists here."
"O, we have Baptists here plenty of
them," said St. Peter, "bnt they are off on a
leave of absence to-day. They' vejust gone
over to that cistern all by themselves to hold
close communion."
DE. PAEKEE'S BAPTIST STOET.
Dr. Parker, who had a call to fill Beech
er's pulpit in Brooklyn, is a strong believer
in the doctrine that baptism means sprink
ling and not immersion, and delights in
telling this story on the immersionists as
much as Beecher delighted in telling his
storv on the close communists:
"One of my parishioners,,' said the Doc
tor, "came to me and told me that he
dreamed that a Baptist friend of bis died
and went to heaven."
"Well, what did he see there?" I asked.
"He saw St Peter at the gate, and be
yond him, through a doorway surrounded
with glaring lights, and smelling of brim
stone, was the devil."
"What do you want?" asked St Peter.
"I want to "come an," replied the immer
sionist. "Well, whe are you?"
"I'm a Baptist minister."
"A Baptistl" repeated St. Peter, a little
puzzled. "A Baptist, eh? Well, what do
you Baptists do? We didn't have any Bap
tists in my time when I was Pope."
"Whv we baptize people."
"Baptize 'em, do you? What in?"
"Whv, water."
"What, all over?"
"Yes, clear under."
"But suppose it's cold?"
"Whv, down they go right through the
ice."
The devil happened to overhear the word
ice, and came forward, rubbing nis hands in
great glee.
" Y nai U1U yuu oajr auuu. its. ..o oaivvu,
smiling.
"Why, we baptize people through the
ice."
"But suppose it's 40 below zero?"
"Down they go, all covered with icicles."
"That'll do," interrupted the devil, "vou
just take my place; you've got something
worse than href"
THE PITTSBUBtfEBS ON TALMAGE.
The PitUburgers in Europe are telling a
good story on our Talmage. It is akin to
the baptism of the unknown Arab tramp in
the Jordan and as shrewd as Talmage's Mars
Hill sermon which was -dictated to a steno
grapher in Brooklyn. It seems the Pitts
burgers had the great preacher engaged to
lecture. The night came and a full bouse,
bnt no Talmage came. In fact, he missed
the train, but before the audience was dis
missed came a telegram from the lecturer
saying:
"Cannot come, owing to, the loss of a
Brother."
This stilled the audience and satisfied the
committee. A lew weeks alter ward a gen
tleman called on the great divine to condole
with him abont his great loss.
"What great loss do you refer to ?" asked
Mr. Talmage, a little puzzled.
"Why, your brother, who recently died?"
"Oh, inr brotherl" repeated the Mars
.Hill preacher. "Well yes, he is dead.
He died W years ago." Eli Peekins.
DISPATCH,
C0I21SI0U- OF EAETH AKD M00H.
A Cntnalropho tho Old Aatronomera Pre
dlcird, bat Tbnt Cnn Nerer Occnr.
Sen Castle, Eng. Chronicle. 1
It is an undoubted fact that the moon is
and has been for acres aonroachint; closer to
the earth, though whether by a fraction of
an inch or a fraction of yard ma century 1
am not prepared to demonstrate. This phe
nomenon is fully proved by a comparison of
the Babylonian eclipses with those recorded
by the Arabian astronomers, and, further,
by comparing the latter with those of mod
ern times. A period, however, will arrive
when this falling toward the earth will
cease, and when the Queen of Night will
start and go back to her former position.
All this, no doubt, is very mysterious and
complex, and had it not been tor tho giant
intellects of Laplace and Lagrange, we
might yet be calculating how long, at its va
rious rates of progression toward the earth, onr
satellite would take to reach that body, and
tne probable results of such an event. J.ne
limit to the moon's acceleration and conse
quent approach to our planet was discov
ered to be due to the decrease and subse
quent disappearance in the eccentricity of
the earth's orbit
Then the question naturally suggests itself
as to how near the moon will be to us when
the limit is reached. As I have intimated,
this will be settled in-about 500,000 years,by
which period the moon's mean motion will
indicate that she is between GOO and 701) of
her diameters in advance of the position she
would have occupied had no change been in
progress. We may, I think, take it for
granted that the arrangements of the solar
system are stable; and that the perturba
tions in the moon's mean motion are not in
definitely progressive, but periodical, albeit
extending over countless ages, reaching a
limit, as they perhaps have done before,and
then resuming their old character.
DEIUK AND LONGEVITY.
Tho
Beit Iiunrnnce Companies Draw
tho
Lino nt Glnmes With McnU.
St, Louis Globe-Democrat. J
The best class of life insurance companies
prefer not to take risks on drinking men,
and some of them absolutely decline to issue
policies to men who habitually use al
coholic or malt liquors in the form of drams.
Every applicant is required to state whether,
he uses stimulants, and in what manner and
quantity.
No objection is raised against the man
who uses wine or beer in moderation at his
meals, for physiologists generally teach that
liquor and food, when taken together, are
mutually helpful, or more properly that al
cohol is least injurious when used with food,
but when a man is in the habit of taking
even two or three drinks of liquor every
day at other times than with his'food, the
best companies will decline to issue him a
policy, considering it only a question of
time when the habit will grow so as to
necessitate an increase in the quantity con
sumed. While not absolute prohibitionists,
the companies draw the line at the glass of
wine or beer at meal time.
SUPPING BEITS.
Paradoxical Tlionsb it Mnj Seem, Grenie
Will Stop tho Trouble.
"Until a few days ago," said an engineer
in one of the city planing mills yesterday, "I
was always greatly annoyed while on duty
by the constant slipping .oil of the belts
from the pulleys. I have now, however,
found a remedy for this evil. It is to apply
grease to the belt in moderation. Tallow
seems to answer the purpose best Hold a
piece gently against the working side of the
belt while it is running. The tallow should
be moved from edge to edge'Vhile the belt is
mabiny 'hr e or four revolutions. Too
much grease will make the belt slip more
than before."
A BOTAL BETROTHAL.
'Vjcen Victoria, to Wed Frinco Adolf Ton
Schnnmbnre-llpp
Illnstrated;Sews or the World.
On the occasion of her visit to England,
Her Majesty, the Empress Frederick of
Germany, Princess Boyal of Great Britain,
was accompanied by her two unmarried
daughters, Princess Victoria and Princess
Margaret of Prussia, and by a German
Prince, who is to be congratulated on his
having been recently accepted as the future
husband of the first of these two vountr
ladies. Prince AdolfWilliam Victor of
Schaumburg-Lippe is this fortunate man.
His Serene Highness was born on July 20,
1859, the sixth and youngest of the chil
dren of the reigning Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe,
and holds a commission in the
Princess Ptcforfa of Prussia and Germany,
Second Daughter of the Late German
Emperor Frederick.
Prussian army. Her Royal Highness,
Princess Erederica Amelia Wilhelmina
Victoria, who is second daughter and fourth
child of the late German Emperor Freder
ick, King Frederick III. of Prussia, and of
the Empress Victoria, Princess Royal of
Great Britain, was born at Potsdam, April
12, I860. '
Tne act of betrothal, which in Germany
is a lormal and legal ceremony, took place
on June 17 at the Boyal Palace at Potsdam,
where it was proclaimed by the Emperor
William IL, brother of the affianced Prin
cess, to the whole Court assembled in the
Hall of Bronze. It was followed by a
luncheon, at which was present the
Emperor and the Empress his
ConSOrt. the EmnrPSI TtVurlorinlr
his mother, Princesses Victoria and
Prince Adolf Von Schaumbufg-Lippe,
Margaret, Prince Adolf of, Schaumburg
Lippe, Prince Rupert of Eavaria, the Other
Royal Princes and Princesses, General Von
Caprivl, Chancellor of the-German Empire,
and other persons of rank. 2he Emperor
drank the health of his sister and her future
husband, wishing them all happiness.
SUNDAY, JOLT 20,
TRIFLES IS YaMETY.
Over Six Thousand Foreign Decoctions
Shipped to America.
SOME GOOD, SOUEBAD.SOJIE AWFUL.
Nearly All Take Out the Cobwebs and Bring
Quick Answers.
DRINKS FOE CASI IRON STOMACHS
fwarrrEN fob the dispatch.
At this time of the year when at least
8000 immigrants increase onr population
every week, it may be of interest to iknow
what the newcomers bring over with them
besides their muscle, work-power and intel
ligence. For these strangers of to-day are
voters in the next decade and representa
tives 20 years hence. As nearly all are
adults and a large majority males, their
political influence is far greater than that of
an equal number of the native population.
Of the hundred thousand natives, who'make
up a people of a third rate city hardly one
fifth are voters. Of a hundred thousand
immigrants seven-tenths are potential elect
ors. '
It will be a cause of dismay to the aver
age Prohibitionist, therefore, to learn that
more than 95 per cent Of this,foreign influx
drink, love drinking and have been brought
up to believe that malt liquors and wines
are necessary to human health and happi
ness. It may occcasion greater surprise to
know that at least 50 per cent have never
heard of the doctrine of total abstinence,
and that when the same is proclaimed to
them they regard it either as a mild form of
insanity or a religious dogma closely akin
to heathenism.
STICK TO THEIB FIRST LOVE.
So strong are these habits of their native
lands that while nearly all onr immigrants
do in Rome as the Romans do, and become
users of the brewings and strong liquors of
the United States, all of them keeo'up a
sneaking fondness for the stimulants with
which they are first acquainted. The result
is a huge importation of all sorts of queer
and outlandish stimulants from every part
of the globe as well as the erection of estab
lishments in the New. World, which turn
out skillful imitations of the imported arti
cles. In nearly every American city to-day
are places where the brewing, fermenting
and distilling practiced in every part of the
globe can be witnessed by the Sight-seers
and the student. In every port of entry
from New York to San Francisco can be
found samples of not hundreds, but thou
sands, of foreign alcoholic beverages.
Few Americans have any idea of the
variety and wealth of this field. Uncle
Sam runs to extremes. To-day he calls for
bourbon, ale and claret; to-morrow he wants
only rye, beer and champagne. The aver
age wine card of hotel, restaurant and
saloon alike seldom has more than 100 en
tries. Yet in the literature upon the sub
ject, and more especially in the official
records of the Custom House, there are more
than 6,000 different brands of legally recog
nized intoxicants. It would be impossible
in the limits of a newspaper article to give
an extended account ot these quenchers of
thirst. A brief resume of a few may, how
ever, be of interest to the reader.
SHINES FEOJI MEXICO.
Our next door neighbor, Mexico, sends us
a limited quantity of pulque and mescal.
The former is a sweetish sour beer resembling
milk and water in appearance, which is
made from a cactus similar to the flowering
aloe of our hot houses. There is nothing
pleasant about it at the first taste. The
Mexicans say that one must drink it 20
tinies.before he appreciates it. From the
pulqne, mescal, is distilled. It is a rank
and corrosive liquor, alongside of which
Jersey lightning is as soft as cream. It is
popular with the Indians and half-breeds,
who employ it apparently as a substitute
for suicide. The native aguadiente of Mex
ico rarely crosses the Rio Grand?. It is a
coarse and poorly rectified whisky.
Central and South America produce a
large number of intoxicants, each of which
is from time to time bronght into the United
States. Some are horrible to nostril and
palate alike. Of these a representative fluid
is casasha or white sugar cane rum. It
bears the same relation to Jamaica and
Santa Cruz that the poorest Irish potheen or
potato spiri s does to rye or bourbon. Large
amounts of casasha are made illicitly by
negrn farm hands and retailed at ridiculous
prices. In the interior of Porto Rico,
Jamaica and Brazil it can be purchased at
anywhere from 1 to 3 cents a glassful. And
no little class, mark you, but a good old
fashioned tumbler holding over a half pint
LIQUORS FBOM THE TROPICS.
Far different from this mephitic compound
are the liquors and cordials made in the
Latin-American countries from the count
less leaves, barks, flowers and fruits of the
tropics. Amone the more notable are those
whose bases are the banana, pineapple.lime,
lemon, orange, chocolate, cocoanut, date,
tamarind, hg, lily and lemon verbena. To
increase the variety, the makers will com
bine two or more flavors to produce a novel
flavor. This now and then will be half
L as, 1U1 OJk-
. , anaiia and
orange. Nearly all, however, are utterly
strange and all are delicious. Generally
they are a trifle too sweet for the masculine
taste, containing so much sugar as to be
cloying. But for women and invalids, or
for a pousse-cafe, sherbet or punch they are
simply invaluable. They have the further
advantage of being quite inexpensive.
From Europe comes an inexhaustible
stream of odd drinks. In Hamburg and
Bremen are a score of manufacturers whose
sole business is adulterating or rather imi
tating every known stimulant, whose valne
allows a fair profit upon the work. Cham
pagne, Cognac and Otard, Madeira, Chateau
Lafitte, Steinburger Cabinet and Clos
Vougest are so skillfully imitated as to de
ceive anyone not an expert Besidesthis,
there ib another branch'of their villainous
profession which consists in manulacturing
the drugs and chemicals wherewith dis
honest dealers and hotel keepers can trans
mute raw spirit Into a four-star brandy or
the thinnest California vintage into a world
famous wine of the Rhine or Moselle.
POISONS FROM ACROSS THE SEA.
While the trade is.prohibited so far as
borne consumption is concerned, the com
mercial policy of the Government gives it
full .swing to the rest of the world. As a
result huge invoices of bogus wines and
strong liquors, essential oils and flavorinc
ethers are continually being forwarded
from Emperor William's Tyre and Sidon
to every port of entry in the United States.
The business done in this line with Yankee
land already exceeds $5UU,uuu annually and
is still on the increase.
Our Scandinavian citizens keep, alive the
love and pleasures of home by Bbporting
red caraway liquor, Norwegian beer, Danish
corn whisky and Swedish punch. The first
is a curious combination of alcohol, water,
caraway seed, rose leaves and anise. It
tastes something like Kuemmel, but is
harsher, more puncent and penetrating. It
is an acquired taste on the part of those who
like it; as I never yet saw a person who tried
it the first time who did not express a strong
desire to kill tho man who gave it to him;
the beers ot Norseland are remarkably good.
They seem to be classified with shavings of
fir, spruce and larch, as they have a sug
gestion, if not a prcceptible subflavor of
the pine forests about them. Thev are clear,
sparkling and apparently have body enough
to serve as liquid food. Of the Danish corn
whisky the less said the better. It reeks
with fusel oil, and emits a vanor that will
give a stranger the headache, in a few min
utes. Swedish punch is just as good as the
corn juice is bad. It is a mild, sweet and
royally odorous mixture of anack. sugar,
lemon, orange and other equally delightful
flavors. It has been popular with the
Scandinavian for nearly two centuries, and
deserves the esteem in which it is held.
AS BAD AS RAW ALCOHOL.
Russia sends us Vodka orVodky. The
1890.
importation is 'utterly gratuitous, as any
body can enjoy the stuff who will drink the
impure or deadly spirit used in alcohol
lamps. To Muscovites it maybe a good thng
in the depths of winter, but in this country
its use is unpardonable. Besides the ex
quisite wines whieh have made that land
famous, Hungary sends us Slivovitsch, or
Magyar plnm brandy. It is made from a
particular variety of that fruit, which Is
found only in certain parts of the Austrian
empire, and though strong and fiery to the
last degree, is not so very disagreeable to the
tongue, '
Asia Minor is a steady customer at the
American custom houses. Although it
has sent a small army of Greeks, Armen
ians, Syrians and half breeds to these
shores, it takes them into no account when
it ships us alcoholic goods. These are pro
duced almost exclusively for the use of
those who once dwelt in the Slavonic lands,
but are now true-blue citizens of the New
World. For centuries this trade has en
dured, one year rising high in prosperity
and another falling into the abyss
of bankruptcy. At rare intervals
the wines and liquors of the
Holy Land are sent over in the "bottles"
referred to in the Scriptures, tough skins,
which in turn are carefully boxed; but the
Gentile cask and glass bottle have driven
the sheepskin and goatskin vessels out of
the market. The "wet goods" of Judea and
its neighboring territory are Jerusalem
wine, Jerusalem brandy, honey wine and
passover wine. Judging from samples at
the custom house the Oriental is a poor band
at viniculture. If things were no better 18
centnries ago it is hard to understand bow
St Paul could recommend a little wine for
the stomach's sake, but very easy to realize
how hideously druck Noah must have been
if he used a similar intoxicant- The wine
is thick, muddy and coarse, very like the
homemade vintages of old New England
housewives. It has a rich bouquet and a
flavor suggestive of Tokay and Muscatel.
The brandy is no better than the wine. It
is made from plums and prunes, and is dis
tilled and rectified in a way that seems to
increase the normal impurities of raw spirit
It is above proof and seams the mouth and
throat as.it is swallowed.
TVINES MADE OF HONEY.
The honev wine and passover wine are
apparently varieties ot the same kind of
liquor. The rabbis claim that, they are
produced by fermenting honey of 'one flavor
and sweetening the resulting wine with honey
of a different flavor. If the claim is truth
ful there is no fear of the bee ever becoming
the rival of the grape. Of the many honey
wines and passover wines which come
through the custom house, everyone is
flat, syrupy and, to put it mildly, unpalata
ble. An immense array of curious stimulants
comes from the far East, China, Japan and
Java. The Orientals have never learned to
make effervescent beverages, but, outside of
iuis, snow as muen anout lermenting and
distilling as we Western barbarians. In
some respects they have gone further and
utilized almost every vegetable from which
a potable fluid could be procured. A par
allel would exist if we made whishy-from
rice, buckwheat and oats or wine from
cantaloupes, watermelou and pumpkin.
There is sogreat a variety to these Eastern
liquors that the Government classifies
them ronghly into wines, strong
liquors, cordials and medicines. Of these
four classes the representatives I have
sampled are all well made. None are bad
in any regard, and very tew are extraordi
narily attractive. They average about 20
per cent higher in quality and palatability
above, the average contents of a first-class
American bar. The liquors are not so
strong as onr hard liquors, nor, according to
people who have used them in the East, as
injurious to the system.
This long list ot intoxicants passes
through the custom house, leaving samples
in the appraiser's office and in the labora
tory of the Government's chemist, and then
passes to the people of the United States
who come from the lands in which they are
manufactured. The variety as well as the
quantitv ot the importations increase every
year. When the ceaseless influx of foreign
ers is taken into consideration it may well
be asked how much and how many of these
outlandish drinks will be passing the cus
toms a hundred years hence.
William E. S. Faxes.
SALTMAKING DT VACUO.
A Now Procnn That Effecta a Great Saving
In Coal, and Is Better Betide.
Mr. Alfred E. Fletcher, Chief Inspector
of Alkali and Chemical Works of England,
in bis recently published report, devotes a
considerable amount of space to a descrip
tion of the method of manufacturing salt in
vacuo introduced by Dr. Sigismund Pick,
of Szczakowa, Austria. Not only is it
more economic, but if is a first step toward
breaking down the ancient system so waste
ful of heat, and so productive of black
smoke and acid gases. Dr. Pick's appa
ratus is made in three duplicate sections,
each consisting of four main parts the
boiling chamber, the heating chamber, the
collecting chamber and the' filtering cham
ber. The steam used enters the heating
chamber of the first section and there heats
the brine, and the steam given off from that
brine enters the steam chamber of the sec
ond section and heats the brine there. The
same process is repeated in the third sec
tion, but the steam generated in the latter
section is drawn off by the means of a vacu
um pump condenser.
By the new process a saving of 17 hundred
weight per ton of coal is said to be effected,
where waste or exhanst steam is not avail
able, but where it is the economy is still
greater. In addition the process being
automatic, no skilled labor is required to
carry it on, while the salt produced is finer
ingrain and of greater density But the
most important feature ot the new method
in the eyes of the alkali works inspector is
the absence of deleterious gases.
VON M0LTKE AND BEEE.
He
and Herr -"Bismarck Don't Agree on
German;! National Beverage.
Count von Moltke, says a Berlin corre
spondent, in reply to an inquiry as to
whether he had made a statement attributed
to him, that beer was the greatest enemy of
the Germans, has given the following re
ply: "I can ' never have made such a state
ment On the contrary, I wish a good, cheap,
light beer for our people could be supplied.
I myself abstain altogether from al
cohol. I do not consider it neces
sary or helpful) except, perhaps,
after fatiguing work, when the principal
thing is to revive one's strength at once.
Certainly, one of the greatest enemies of
Germany is the misuse of alcohol. A
healthy man needs no snch stimulant, and
to give it to children, which is often done, is
absolutely wicked. I should like to see tea
and coffee and light beer cheaper than they
are, and brandy a good deal dearer.
TOP 20013 FOR BELLES.
A Spnnlih Custom That Traveled Jo Franco
and Then to America.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Among the latest of fads recently intro
duced in this city is the wearing of top
boots by society oelles. The idea originated
in Spain, from whence it readily spread? to
France. Of course its adoption by the
French at once brought it into prominence,
and it is now considered the proper thing
for driving in phaetons and other carriages
where ladies are supposed to occupy high
seats.
The boots are very light in weight, some
having heels and others low, either kind
being allowable. Patent leather seems to be
preferable, but a great many pairs are made
out of morocco with kid tops. The tops of
the latter are highly ornamented with de
signs in colored silks. Of course nothing
but the softest kind of leather is used in the
manufacture of these booti
Can Such Thins Bel
Commercial Advertiser.!
The Prohibitionists of Cape May are
much exercised over the fact that the Presi
dent runs a mosquito bar in his new cot
tage. -
THE LATEST GOSSIP.
One of Chief Justice Fuller's Daugh
ters to Wed a Westerner,
AUGUST JESSUP'S TITLED BRIDE.
SackTille-Weat's Daughter Married Without
Changing Eer Name.
A FDTDKB FOB I0UNG JIM BLAINE
ICOERKSPOSPSSCI 07 THI DISPATCH. I
Washington, July 19. A large num
ber of onr society ladies are still in Wash
ington. Some of these are Congressmen's
wives who help their husbands in their
Congressional work. Other leading Wash
ington women prefer the comforts of their
homes here to the stuffy rooms at the sea
shore, and there is as mnch visiting and
gossiping done just now as In midwinter.
In the rounds of winter calls,, when one sees
a hundred women a day, there is no chance
for confidences, and the spring and summer
are the best times to get information.
One of the latest bits is the engagement
of Miss Mildred Fuller to Mr. H. A. Wal-'
lace, of Tacoma. Miss Fuller is a'beauti
ful girl. She has luxuriant blonde hair,
and her figure is as well rounded as that of
the Venus de Medici. Her style, however.
i3 more that of Juno, and one of her best
points is the poise of her head, which, by
the way, is much like that of her father.
She has a complexion of creamy white, and
she shows much taste in dressing. Mr.
Wallace is one of the most promising law
yers of the new State of Washington. He
met Miss Fnller while he was visiting here
last winter as the guest. of Senator Cock
rell. Mrs. Cockrell gave a tea in his honor
and Miss Fuller was one of the pretty aris
tocrats who attended id Mr. Wallace, I
am told, fell in love at first sicht. and the
aroma ot the tea was mixed with' the elixir
of love.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE 'WILL BDILD.
I understand that the Chjef Justice will
build a house in Washington, and that the
big mansion of Senator Van Wvck will bo
acain for rent The Chief Justice has
bonght a lot on Bhode Island avenue be
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth, and his
mansion will probably be a big one. Each
one of his girls is bound to have her own
bedroom in it, and this gives him a demand
of nine chambers as a starter. It is true
that Miss Pauline is married, but Miss
Mary Fuller, who is abroad studying music,
will nrobiblr be home by the time the
house is completed, and the son of the Chief
Justice, although he is Dut a iaa 01 iu, de
sires his own quarters.
The marriage ot Mr. Jessup to an Earl's
daughter brings to mind several interesting
things besides the fact that the bridegroom's
wealth is supposed to offset the bride's title.
As a rule international marriages are based
upon the bride's money and the bride
groom's title, the rich American girl and
the titled foreigner, she of course acquiring
a title and equal social distinction. But
when an American millionaire goes abroad
and wins a titled wife, she cannot confer
upon him her title. She may be Countess
This or Lady That, but he remains Mr. John
Jones or Mr. Brown. The Countess would
precede her American husband, not as in
this country by the courtesy giving a
woman precedent, but because ot her title.
ME. JESSUP'S BEIDE.
Mr. Jessup's wife comes from a long line
of Earls, her father, the Earl of Strathmore
and Einghorne, being the thirteenth in the
line of Earls, but the family lineage going
back to the feudal Barons of Fortevint in
1371, when there was royal blood by the
marriage of Sir John Lyon and Lady Jane
Stuart, the daughter 6f King Bobert IL,
who gave them Glamis Castle, in North
Britain, ever since the country seat of the
family. To the old Quaker families in
f Philadelphia it is something of a fairytale
that Augustus Jessup, the son of a Quaker,
should marrv an Earl's daughter, and to
read that the "bridegroom settled $150,000
on the bride." Mr, Jessup, as the old
Quakers know, is the nephew of Mrs.
Blo'omheid Moore, who has been a promi
nent figure iu London literary circles dur
ing recent years. Mr. Bloomfield Moore
and his brother-in-law, the elder Mr. Jes
sup, amassed fortunes in the paper business
for publishing bouses, among them the
Copperthwaites, publishers and booksellers.
The three families were at the time close
friends, and among the most prosperous
business firms of Philadelphia.
Mr. Moore died after a brief illness, leav
ing a large fortune to his widow. Mr. Cop
perthwaite failed, but paid all his indebted
ness, bnt left his family poor. His daugh
ters were highly educated and accomplished
women. Two of them came to Washington
and obtained positions in the Government
service. One of the two now receives the
highest salary paid to perhaps six women
in the service. Fate bad this worldly
destiny in store for the Quaker sisters a
more worldly destiny for Mrs. Bloomfield
More, once a Quakeress, now the fashion-.
able society leader and the Quaker ooy,
Augustus Jessup, who the other day mar
ried this Earl's daughter.
THE SACK.VILLE-TVEST "WEDDING.
Another wedding more especially inter
esting to Washington people is that of Miss
Victoria Sackville-West, the oldest daugh
ter of the former British Minister, a beau
tiful young woman, who, as hostess at the
British Legation, made many friends now
interested in her marriage. It is well
known that Miss West married her first
cousin, Edward Lionel Sackville-West, her
father's godson, and who will succeed to
her father's title and the Knole estate, to
which the Minister fell heir by the death of
an elder brother just before he left Wash
ington. Many pleasant things about the wedding
have come back in letters to friends who de
clare the bride must have looked "lovely"
in Mr gown of white satin, orange blossoms
and diamonds. The ceremony was in Koole
ChapeJ, where -1 years ago the bridegroom
had been christened, and some rare old
Brussels lace then on his christening robe,
was now the drapery on his bride's gown.
The bride had many gifts of diamonds
tiara, necklace, brooch and pendent from
her father; round brooch of diamonds, a pin
of sapphires and diamonds, rings and dia
mond bangles trom the groom. The bridal
pair are spending their honeymoon on the
Uontinent. unnousiy tne orioe is now Airs.
Lionel Sackville-West, the name of her
father.
WALTER DAHKOSCn'S BEIDE.
News of another bride, Margarett Blaine,
is that Mr. and Mrs. Damrosch are staying
quietly in Dresden. "They will return home
about the 1st of September, and join the
bride's family at Bar Harbor, where all are
likely to pass the autumn. It was not
until the "Fourth" that the Blaine house
on Lafayette Square, took on a "gone
away" look, the family leaving the night
before for the Maine coast. Secretary
Blaine will take out a brief outing and will
retnrn to remain until the adjournment of
Congress. James Bjaine, Jr., will keep
his father company.
I saw Jimmy Blaine in the Congressional
library tho other day. He wore a white
flannel suit, and as he sat at one of the read
ing' tables he looked cool and indifferent.
Baek of his seeming indifference, however, I
see a settled look which has deepened since
his brother Walker's deatb; and he evi
dently feels the responsibility incumbent
upon him as his father's representative. He
was appointed Clerk to the House Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs ajhort time ago, and
he attends, I am told, strictlv to his duties.
It may be that the story of his life will be
the same as that of Thomas F. Bayard's.
When Bayard was a young fellow his
brother James A. Bayard was set aside by
the family us their future statesman, and
they decided that Tom should be a mer
chant They sent him to Philadelphia, but
while he was acting as counter-jumper his
brother James died and Senator Bayard
then recalled Tom and put him to studying
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law. Toung Jim Blaine has, it is true,
been rather wild, but he is still away down
in his twenties and he has the Blaine
brains behind his Blaine like face.
THE FINEST IN WASHINGTON.
I saw Mrs Representative Hitt out driv
ing to-day. She is one of the handsomest
women in Congressional circles, and one
whose toilets, whether for the house or
street, are as striking as they are becoming.
During the season the "Hilt turnout," in
cluding horsey carriage and livery, is one
of the finest in Washington. Just now
Mrs. Hitt uses a pretty single surrey tha
box of light colored wood. Mrs. Hitt has
no need to economize. She was an heiress
before her marriage and has always been
used to money. For this reason she is never
an over-dressed woman, but everything
she wears is of the best materia), simply
fashioned so that her toilets never hint of
great wealth.
Mrs. Hitt Is one of the clever women, a
brilliant talker, and she speaks French
fluently. She has no liking for large even
ing parties, but gives many dinners and
luncheons, and like the Vice-President's
wife, Mrs. Hitt is reckoned a perfect hostess
on sach occasions. It was at a luncheon
given by Mrs. Hitt to young women, that
Joseph Chamberlin was the only man gnest.
Of course Miss Eadicott, now Miss Cham
lin, was bne of the young women. It was
said, and doubtloss was true, that Mr. Cham
berlin himself gave such appealing hints to
Mrs. Hitt that she could dono less than to say.
laughingly; "Ob, yes; you m3y come too."
And the fisheries diplomat jumped at the
chance to lunch with "twenty "American
girls," who naturally regarded him as the
lion of the feast, though he had eyes but for
the one fair blonde whom he not long after
carried away to his English"home.
YOTOG HEARST'S MAERIAGE.
William Hearst, or "young Mr. Hearst,"
as he is usually called, is a young bache
lor, the only child and the heir to his
father's millions. Whom will he- marry? '
No other question is of such intense interest
to his parents, particularly to his mother.
Itis not extravagant because true that upon
his marriage depends his mothers lature
happiness. Senator Hearst is not a man of
social'ambition. Even now he will slip
away from his San Francisco house for a
fortnight in a miner's camp to tell stories,
and rough it in a miner's cabin on a miner's
fare. It is certain, therefore, that Senator
Heam will not break his heart if his son
and heir but chooses a worthy woman, how
ever lacking she may be in social position.
Bnt not so Mrs. Hearst She is a woman
possessed of much prida and social position.
She would have her son travel abroad, min
gle with men of culture and leisure, espe
cially Englishmen, lor Mre. Hearst has a
leaning toward England and the English.
If it would so happen that young Mr.
Hearst's wealth would bring about another
international marriage, such as that ot Au
gustus Jessup, it is safe to say her son's
choice would come nearer the mark of
gratifying Mrs. Hearst's fond hopes for her
son, who is th "apple of her eye." But,
unfortunately for his ambitions mother,
William Hearst is hopelessly Ameri
can, hopelessly democratic in theory
and practice, and uncompromisingly
"down" on aristocratic tendencies. Mrs.
Hearst is hunting a "nice American girl"
for him. Mios Getjndt, Je.
Who's Got nn Elephant for Sale?
Chicago Inter Ocean. 1 .
The boys and cirls of Atlanta some
months ago, aided by the Constitution, set
abont raising funds "to bny an elephant"
They have got the money in hand, and any
body with a spare elephant should at once
communicate with the "Constitution of At
lanta. The qualifications are: That he
must be amicable, love little boys and girls,
have two sound ivories, and a good trunk of
his own.
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burg, and in all parts of the world, with pleas
ing results. Call at mv office and see testi
monials from ladies of Pittsburg and vicinity
who do not wish their names published. The
face bleach can only be had at my branch office.
No. 93 Fifth avenne, Hamilton building, rooms
liC and 201, Pittsburg, or sent to any address on
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bottles, usually required to clear the complex
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